CFTC head highlights role of DLT in compliance

The Chairman of the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that advances in financial technology could be used to improve regulatory processes.

In his keynote address at FinTech Week at Georgetown University Law School, J. Christopher Giancarlo highlighted distributed ledger technology (DLT) only briefly, as the speech's main focus was big data, automated data analysis and artificial intelligence.